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SMITH v. PUST

Docket No. G012429.

19 Cal.App.4th 263 (1993)

23 Cal. Rptr.2d 364

CAIN SMITH, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. KEITH PUST et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

October 5, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Lopez & Hodes and Michael E. Raabe for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, David Humiston and Frederick D. Baker for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

SILLS, P.J.

MaryBeth Smith had a brief sexual encounter with her therapist which destroyed her marriage to Cain Smith. The offended husband sued the therapist and the therapist's employer. California abolished the torts of alienation of affection and criminal conversation (a euphemism for a third party's sexual intercourse with an adulterous spouse)1 more than 50 years ago, so the complaint was...

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